Mysteries

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Mysteries
Kód ITMS projektu 26110130519 Gymnázium Pavla
Jozefa Šafárika moderná škola tretieho
tisícrocia
Vzdelávacia oblast  Jazyk a komunikácia
Predmet  Anglický jazyk
Rocník, triedy   Sekunda
Tematický celok  Záhady
Vypracoval  Ing. Diana Matisová
Dátum  12.2012
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Content

• Mysterious places I
• Mysterious places II
• Mysterious monuments I
• Mysterious monuments II
• Mysterious creatures I
• Mysterious creatures II
• Mysterious people
• Myterious stories I
• Myterious stories II

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Mysterious places I

• There are many mysterious places in the Earth.
• Do you know some of them?
• What are their names?
• Where are they?
• Why are they mysterious?
• Nazca lines in Peru
• 300 pictures of animals e.g. spiders, snakes,
  monkeys
• you can see them only from sky
• Are they maps? How and why were they made?

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Mysterious places II

• Bermuda triangle
• it is also called a devil triangle
• it is an area between Bermuda, Miami and Puerto
  Rico
• a lot of airoplanes and ships have dissapeared
  there
• Why have ships and planes dissapeared there?
• Crop circles
• they started to appear in the 17th century
• they have different shapes
• Who or what make them? Why?

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Mysterious monuments I

• Pyramid in Giza
• it is in the centre of gravity of continents
• it is in the centre of the mainland
• the distance of its peak equals the distance from
  
• the Earth to the Moon
• Why and how were pyramides made?
• Stonehenge
• Salisbury Plain, southern England
• 30 stones, 3m high and weigh 26 ton with smaller
• ones with 6 ton they are in a circle
• Is it a calendar?

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Mysterious monuments II

• Giant statues of Easter Island
• Scientists do not know why were they made, maybe
  to
• deter the enemy
• statues have also bodies not only heads
• Stone balls in Costarica
• they are perfectly round, scientists refuse they
  could be
• made by hands or some equipment
• Machu Picchu Old Peak
• It is located 2430 m above sea level in
  Peru,South America

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Mysterious creatures I

• Dragons
• They were mystical creatures with wings, a horn,
• long claws, and a tail. They were very
  intelligent
• and they lived in caves.
• In eastern cultures people admire and respect
  them
• In Chinesse horscope, there are 12 animal, 11 of
  them are real
• and they still exist.
• Chupacabra
• In Porto Ricco,Mexico,USA
• sucks blood from farm animals
• It is bigger than dog with red eyes, scales and
• spines and it moves like a kangoroo
• Nessie
• It is a monster which lives in Loch Ness, Scotland

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Mysterious creatures II

• Exercise
• Put the names of these creatures to each
  picture
• vampire
• werewolf
• yeti
• witch
• ghost
• mermaid
• alien
• sea monster

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Mysterious people

• Nostradamus
• The first prophecy made by Nostradamus was in
  1538
• when he met a monk with a herd of pigs and
  said to him
• Your Holiness. The monk became Pope known
  as Sixtus V.
• He predicted the reign of Napoleon, Hitler,
  Stalin, assasination of President Kennedy, death
  of Princess Diana as well as the date of his own
  death
• Sibyla
• She predicted different kinds of discoveries,
  cars, planes,
• the fall of empires and she warn people of
  future

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Mysterious stories I

• Romulus and Remus
• According to the roman mythology, the
  founders
• of Rome were Romulus and Remus. They were
• twin-brothers, sons of priestess Rhea
  Silvia and
• god Mars. They were unwanted because
  Amulius was fearing that the boys would grow up
  to overthrow him, so he had thrown them into the
  River Tibet. They were found by a she-wolf, who
  instead of killing them, looked after them and
  fed them with her milk. A woodpecker brought them
  food as well. Romulus and Remus were then
  discovered by Faustulus, a
  shepherd, who brought the children to his home.

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Mysterious stories I

• They raised the boys as their own. Upon
  reaching
• adulthood, Romulus and Remus killed Amulius
  and Romulus
• began to build walls of their own town on
  the Palatine Hill,
• where were they found by the she-wolf.
  Remus jeered at the
• walls because they were so low. Romulus in
  anger killed him.
• He named the new city Roma after his own
  name.

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Mysterious stories II

• Vlad Tepes Dracula
• Vlad was born in Transylvania. When he was
  a child he malterated mice and rats. When he
  died,
• he was only 45. He wanted to establish
  order in Wallachia. His whole family was killed.
  His enemy was Osman Empire. A story says that
  when two ministers of Sultan came to visit him,
  he ask them to take off their turbans. They could
  not do it according to theit faith, so he nailed
  the turbans to ministers heads. Other story says
  that he enjoyed feasing in a forest of stakes
  while a nearby executioner cuts victims. The
  number of his victims range between 40.000 to
  100.000. His favourite method of torture was
  impaling on stakes. That is the reason why he is
  also called Vlad the Impaler.

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Použité zdroje

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler
• www.unrv.com/culture/romulus-and-remus.php
• kruhy-v-obili.webnode.sk
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu_Picchu
• sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus
• www.upirry.estranky.cz/clanky/dracula/
• pbspravy.sk/vedeli-ste-ze/sochy-na-velkonocnych-os
  tovoch-maju-aj-tela/
• www.mysteria.sk